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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:25:05 JST alcinnz

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   • Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪

   @BlippyTheWonderSlug @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern I like to say that arguments over whether or not the Earth will be fine are oversimplified: We're talking a lot of innocent species with us!

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     bouriquet (bouriquet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:25:07 JST bouriquet

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     @gerrymcgovern AI will destroy us

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     bouriquet (bouriquet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:25:07 JST bouriquet

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     • Gerry McGovern

     @gerrymcgovern And the planet

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     Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪 (blippythewonderslug@ieji.de)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:25:07 JST Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪

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     @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern
     Nah. The planet itself will be just fine, barring cosmic scale calamity. It'll continue to circle around the sun, being a planet, content in its planetness.

     In a few hundred million years, some other species will be making wild theories about the "plastic layer," and sudden die-off in the fossil record.

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     Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:25:09 JST Gerry McGovern

     AI use is surging astronomically around the globe, requiring vastly more energy to make AI-friendly semiconductor chips and causing a gigantic explosion in data center construction. So large and rapid is this expansion that Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, has warned that AI is driving humanity toward a “catastrophic energy crisis.”

     https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/critics-fear-catastrophic-energy-crisis-as-ai-is-outsourced-to-latin-america/

     Joachim repeated this.
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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:55:46 JST alcinnz

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     • Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪

     @BlippyTheWonderSlug @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern Well, I do regularly see this argument crop up.

     People arguing over these 2 grandiose statements & getting offended what they see their opposition reading into it.

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     Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪 (blippythewonderslug@ieji.de)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 04:55:47 JST Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪

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     @alcinnz @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern
     It is that simple. You're overcomplicating it. We're doing "apples and oranges."

     The earth, as a planet, will be fine.

     Whether or not we, or other species can live on it, has nothing to do with it being a planet.

     The atmosphere/environment we live in is a transient property of the planet, but it is not the planet.

     As far as we know, many, if not most, planets are devoid of life.

     I would argue a lifeless earth would be more "normal."

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     Robbie 🇧🇪 :tux: (deightonrobbie@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 18:58:26 JST Robbie 🇧🇪 :tux:

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     • Gerry McGovern

     @gerrymcgovern Not only energy. Also expect more e-waste in future once all newly constructed factories start production.